Choosing a Yearbook Theme for Your School Yearbook
Once you have taken the pictures to fill up your yearbook, and you have the latest software to develop your yearbook, it is time to start thinking of yearbook themes. Your yearbook theme is important when creating your yearbook. It organizes your yearbook to help create a smooth flow from section to section.
When you are having trouble finding inspiration for your theme, go to some artwork for help. Artwork is a great place to start when trying to figure out a theme. Once you have picked your theme, say for example “thinking outside of the box” you can start to figure out what your cover and inside pages will look like. Remember, that you want to keep with your theme. While you may want to incorporate a lot of great ideas, that will only make your yearbook messy. With the example theme you can incorporate some wacky designs on the inside pages and also possibly include some fun facts about your students. Since the yearbook is for the student’s enjoyment, why not feature some outside of the box facts about the students! This will make your yearbook much more personal. For example, maybe a student in the freshman class works with on a camel farm. That is certainly something that is outside of the box. You can be as creative as you would like to be with your theme.
Your theme will help put your yearbook together with style. The options for yearbook themes are endless. If you want to break away from the theme you have chosen for your sports and club pages, that is okay too. You can to add a sports specific background to spice up your sports team pages but just remember to keep the sections consistent.
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Major Themes
Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence. She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. of Tom’s statement true. When she found the entire fence whitewashed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable. She said:
“Well, I never! There’s no getting round it, you can work when you’re a mind to, Tom.” And then she diluted the compliment by adding, “But it’s powerful seldom you’re a mind to, I’m bound to say. Well, go ‘long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I’ll tan you.”
She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a happy Scriptural flourish, he “hooked” a doughnut.
Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor. Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling. They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone. There was a gate, but as a general thing he was too crowded for time to make use of it. His soul was at peace, now that he had settled with Sid for calling attention to his black thread and getting him into trouble.
Developing a Yearbook Theme
What is a Yearbook Theme?
Consider the yearbook theme as the attitude or personality of the year for your school. It is a perfect medium to tell a story that will be remembered by all in a positive or spirit-related format. Your school yearbook should record the events of the year and celebrate the milestones of the year under the unified story format of your the theme. Yearbook themes come in different shapes and sizes based upon the attitude of the year. Yearbook themes are discussed and portrayed in all sections of the yearbook, especially on the cover, endsheets, title pages, opening pages, closing pages, and division pages for each section of the school yearbook.
Good Yearbook Theme Ideas:
Here are a few themes you can consider just for starters:
- A Cut Above
- A Day in the Life
- A Flash from the Past
- A New Awakening
- A New Point of View
- A Season of Change
- A Step Above the Rest
- A Touch of Class
- Anyway You Slice It
- Attention to Detail
- Between the Lines
- Breaking Thru
- Built to Last
- Capture the Magic
- Catch the Moments
- Caught in the Act
The key to developing a good yearbook theme is making sure you address the theme in every section of your yearbook as well as the cover and endsheets (if applicable). Consider playing off words of the yearbook theme as titles for each section or work on conceptual themes that play of a yearbook idea vs. words.
How To Develop Your School Yearbook Theme
As a yearbook publishing company, we are often asked to provide our expert opinion about the yearbook publishing process. One question that is repeated time and again is what are the best ways to develop a yearbook theme, or ideas for developing your yearbook theme. YearbookLife is happy to share some yearbook theme ideas for your elementary, middle or high school yearbook project.
What is a Yearbook Theme?
- Consider the yearbook theme as the attitude or personality of the year for your school
- It is a perfect medium to tell a story that will be remembered by all in a positive or spirit-related format
- Your school yearbook should record the events of the year and celebrate the milestones of the year under the unified story format of your the theme.
- School yearbook themes come in different shapes and sizes based upon the attitude of the year.
- Yearbook themes are discussed and portrayed in all sections of the yearbook, especially on the cover, endsheets, title pages, opening pages, closing pages, and division pages for each section of the yearbook.
Possible Yearbook Themes
The key to developing a theme is making sure you address the theme in every section of the yearbook. Here are a few themes you can consider just for starters:
- A Cut Above
- A Day in the Life
- A Flash from the Past
- A New Awakening
- A New Point of View
- A Season of Change
- A Step Above the Rest
- A Touch of Class
- Anyway You Slice It
- Attention to Detail
- Between the Lines
- Breaking Thru
- Built to Last
- Capture the Magic
- Catch the Moments
- Caught in the Act
Choose a theme and begin to develop it.
Example of a Theme
The key to developing a yearbook theme is making sure you address the theme in every section of the yearbook as well as the cover and endsheets (if applicable).
Consider playing off words of the theme as titles for each section or work on conceptual themes that play of an idea vs. words.
Consider working with a theme like: “Inside & Out”
- Stud. Life: Inside our Walls
- Sports: On the Sidelines
- Clubs: Siding with Others
- Portraits: Side by Side
- Acad.: Sides of Success
- Ads: Outside our walls…
Did you notice how a word that is part of the theme is developed and ties to yearbook theme as well?
